Laura Poole speaks with Jenny McConnell from Bruthen in East Gippsland, where she reflects on representing Australian at the Munich Olympics and how she is feeling ahead of watching her son Dan McConnell compete in the mountain bike discipline at Rio. Read more.

The Department of Sustainability and Environment (DSE) and Country Fire Authority have been given permission to bulldoze a fire containment line from Bruthen through to the Dargo Road in East Gippsland.